>>5245474Oh man, we're really going to be able to do huge amounts of influencing through gifts of technology and resources.
Also hopefully now that we have contact with Mars and the Imperium they surely have access to those abhumans.
This is also a good time to hammer in Talos preference on macro strategy.
We all know that Horus believed in cutting off the head of the snake as it were, going for the leadership, executing the command and control structure. This is not a bad thing, and it is efficient.
But is this surely the best strategy to bring honor and fealty to our Machine Lord? What if, in Talos mind, the best way to overcome an enemy is not some daring plan or raid, but when the option is available, show off ones superiority of force and firepower. To produce more ships than the mitu. More soldiers. More fleets and overwhelm them with a proper display of the righteous wroth of the Machine God and his Adeptus Mechanicus!